Greeting card mount



March 1, 1960 H. K. ATKINS 2,925,444

GREETING CARD MOUNT Filed March 13, 1958 Harare 1K (El/ aw behind whichplies relative to the sight opening Horace K. Atkins, Middleboro, Mass,assignor to Win- "throp-Atkins "Co., ';In c., =Middleboro, Mass, incorpora! tionof Massachusetts a nea mecha isms at 12.11am" aerati(ei."40- -1-5s) This invention relates to greeting- -cards andespecially to mounts of the :kind having a face adapted to beardecorative matter and a legend appropriate to ;a special occasion oraseason of the year, with a window opening, may be disposed aninsert,such asa photo graph. 1

The principal objects of the invention are to provide a mount of theforegoing kind -w ith means for prevent- 2,926,444 Patented Mar. 1, 1960*Fig. '9 is a fragmentary section of still another form of abutment.

'The mouth, as shownin Fig. '1, is substantially rectangular and 'hasfront andback parts and 12, connested along their left hand edges, ;asseen in Fig. 1, by

:a hinge 14. Each of the parts "10 andj12 has front and back 'plieswhich are unjoined except along their edges, which will behereinafterdescribed, and the front ply of the ff-IOllt part 10 "has asubstantially rectangular sight opening [6 therethrough so that aninsert in the form of a photograph slipped between the plies of ;thefront part may be seen through-the sight opening. The front ing theinsert from Shifting relativeto the window opening after it has beendisposed in place; to provikjlea mountwith means for fixing the insertin position without the use of adhesivpto provide a mount with meanswith which the insert may'be engaged to hold it in place without havingto bend or distort, cut or otherwise m altreat it to engage its edgesthrough or beneath slits, -slot-s, tabs and the-like, disposed at alesser distance from each other than the dimensions of the insert; andto provide a mount with means for fixing the insert in place *which maybe embodied therein'withput substantial change in the make-up or methodof manufacture.

' As herein illustrated, the mount has a back ply upon which an insertmay be placed, and other plies, one of which is ;a front' ply connectedto two of the intersecting edges of the bak ply, so .as to be -foldablealong said edges *i-nto parallelism with the back'ply,-the front plybeing substantially coextensive with the back ply and having a sightopening through it, andpositionjng means carried by the back ply spacedfrom'the edges, to which the other plies are connected, by amountscorresponding to the dimensions of the ,insertso that if insert isplaced on the back ply with portions of its edges in enc s tth insttutin i sert t k p y. other portions will have engagement with the foldsalong the edges to which the plies are connected; the

vent lateral shifting thereof betweenthe back an -*The'invention willnow bedescribe'd in greater detail with reference to the accompanyingdrawings wherein:

Fig; 1 is a front view of the greeting card mount with f a sight openingin its face and'with the lower right corner folded back to expose theback ply;

Fig. 2 is a plan view of the mount with the back folded away from theface and into the plane thereof; Fig. 3 is a plan view of the blank fromwhich the mount ismade up, showing the sight opening in the upper rightquarter and an abutment for holding the insert in the lower rightquarter;

Fig. 4 is a fragmentary view of Fig. 3, showing an insertengaged withthe abutment in the lower right-hand quarter;

Fig. 5 is a section taken on the line 5-5 of Fig. 4; Fig. 6 is atransverse section taken on the line 66 of Fig. l;

Fig. 7 is a longitudinal section taken on the line 7--7 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 8 is a fragmentary view of a modified form of abutment; and

v partmay be appropriately decorated for a particular o ccasion and/orseason of the year and the front ply of the back partmay bear a suitablemessage and/ornarne of the sender. "While the sight opening isillustrated as rectangular-it may be of any desirable shape.

'The-mount is'made -up of a blank B of flexible sheet materiah such aspaper, rectangular in shape and divided medially-along lines a'a and b-btransversely and longitudinallythereofpinto four panels 18, 20, '22 and24;"which are foldable into parallelism with each other by first foldingthe blank along the line a-a to form a hinge 26 (Fig. 2), and then alongthe line b"b to form the hinge -14.' V

Prior to folding the blank the opening 16 is cut in the panel section18fand tabs 28 are formed in the panel section '22 bycuttingthroughthe-panel along right angularly disposed lines having straight portions30 and portions 32-at-the extremities thereof which are offset inwardly.I a f p When folded the panel sections 18 and '22 constitute thefront-part 10 and lie with the panel section 122 direct- .ly behind thepanel section 18. The tabs produced by the cuts 30 and 32 are solocated, as shown in Figf4, that when an insertp placed on the panelsectionj22, with its edges at the lowerright corner are engaged beneaththe tabs 28, the top and left side edges opposite the edges engaged-withthe tabs will coincide respectively with the foldlines 26 and '14.The tabs 28' are made with-reference to the standard size forphotographs so that whena photograph-is placed behind the sight opening'-it 'will :be engaged at its edges with the tabs and the fold lines andhence will be held in registration with the sight openingi'; j p

The insert is engaged the tabs while the mount is unfolded, as shown in'Figs. .3 and 4, whereupon the panehsections 1 8 and Ham folded on theline a-a over the panel sections 20 and 24 and hence over the face ofthe insert p. The sections 20 and 24 are then folded along the line b-'bto therear, behind the panel section- 1 8 and -22. Thus the top-and lefthand edges of the insert 12, opposite the tabs 28, are confined byengagement with the hinge lines 14 and 26 and hence the insert cannot bemoved laterally or longitudinally with reference to the sight opening.Engagement of the edges of the insert with a tab 28 and the hinge 14, isshown in Fig. 6, and with the tab 28 and the hinge 26 in Fig. 7.

Mounting the insert in this fashion avoids the necessity of bending orotherwise distorting the insert which is particularly undesirable in thecase of photographs and the difficulty of trying to get all of the edgesinto slots or beneath tabs which are not widely enough spaced to permitthe photograph to be inserted without bending. With the mount unfoldedthe photograph can be placed fiat on "the blank and slid freely alongits surface until the edge portions near the one corner are engaged withthe tabs with very little difliculty and/or manipulation. Final securityis accomplished merely by folding the blank as described above.

In Fig. 8 there is shown a right angle tab 34, at the corner, and one ormore straight tabs 36, only oneof H which is here shown, along adjacentedges formed by cutting through the panels. 22 along lines 38 and 40.Thus the insert is supported directly at the corner and also along oneormore of the sides adjacent the corner. Fig. 9 shows another variationin which the abutment for the corner of the insertjs in the form of apatch 42 having right angularly disposed legs 44 which parallel thefolds 14 and 26 respectively. The patch has .along the outer marginalportions of the legs an adhesive layer 46, by means of which it isattached to the panel section 22, leaving that part of the legs inwardlythereof unattached so asto provide a pocket for the corner of theinsert. I V

Thus by making incisions to form tabs in the body of the panel section22 or by applying an element to the surface thereof, which will serve asan abutment for the corner of the insert, so that when the insert isplaced thereagainst its opposite edges will coincide with the folds,theinsert may be held securely in place and will be prevented fromshifting out of registrationwith the sight opening as long as the mountis kept;folded.

It should be understood that the present disclosure is for the purposeof illustration only and thatthis invention includes all modificationsand. equivalents which fall within the scope of the appended claims..

Iclaim: v

1. In a multi-ply mount for greeting cards, a backing ply upon which aninsert may be placed, and other plies connected to two intersectingedges of the, backing ply so as to be foldable along said edges intoparallelism with the backing ply, at least one of the plies overlyingthe front face of the backing ply and containing a window opening, andpositioning means carried bythe backing ply situated at the oppositeside of the window opening from the folds, said positioning means andsaid folds collectively forming abutments for engagement with an insertplaced against the backing ply which prevent lateral shifting of theinsert between the backing ply and the window ply so as to retain theinsert in registration with said window. 7

2. A greeting card mount comprising front and back plies hinged alongone edge and folded together therealong, said plies being otherwiseunjoined so as to provide a pocket therebetween, said front plycontaining a substantially rectangular sight opening through which aninsert placed within the pocket against the back ply may be seen,positioning means carried by the back ply having right angularlydisposed portions situated at the opposite side of the window from thefold and an edge at right angles thereto and a ply hinged to the frontply along said edge at right angles to said one edge, said ply beingfoldable about said;edge to aposition parallel to the back ply, thefolds along Said edges and said positioning means collectively formingquadrilaterally disposed abutments for engagement with the edges of theinsert, placed behind the window, to prevent shifting of the insertbetween the front and back plies relative to the window.

3. In a multi-ply mount a pair of coextensive plies connected along oneedge of a fold, said plies being otherwise unconnected and providing apocket space between them, one of said plies having a sight openingthrough it, through which an insert placed between the .plies may beseen, means connected along another edge of at least one of the plieswhich intersects the said one edge and is foldable relative to said edgeinto parallelism with the pair of plies, and forming a fold along thatside at right angles to the fold along the one side, and a pair ofpositioning shoulders on the back ply situated at the opposite side ofthe sight opening from the folds, said folds forming in conjunction withsaid shoulders, when .the plies are folded into parallelismquadrilaterally disposed abutments for engagement with the, insert whichprevent lateral shifting of the insert, said plies being unfoldable toremove the abutments so that the insert may freely he slid into place,so as to be in registration with the sight opening.

, 4. A mount composed of a single substantially rectangular sheet offlexible material folded so as to have front and back parts hingedlyconnected along one side, each of said parts having front and backplies, the plies of each part being hinged along edges at right anglesto the hinge connecting the parts, the fold lines between the front andback forming an abutment along that side of the mount between the frontand back plies of the front part and the fold lines between the frontand back plies at the other edge of the front part forming a secondabutment, said front ply of the front part having a window opening,positioning means carried by the back References Cited in the file ofthis patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 1,136,163 O'Brien Apr. 20, 19i51,317,946 Snively Oct. 7, 1919 1,381,674 Simpson June 14, 192l 1,477,131Kulik Dec. 11, 1923 2,394,980 Byck Feb. 19, 1946 2,842,882

Greene et a1. July 15, 1958

